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Great escapes to help you recharge

By Staff, Relaxnews

Posted:
10/09/2013 03:46:27 AM MDT

Planning your great escape? Lonely Planet has a few ideas. (Andrzej Kubik/shutterstock.com)

From a luxury spa treatment in Bali, to rhino-watching wilderness expeditions and meditative retreats in a monastery in Mallorca, the latest travel guide from Lonely Planet offers globetrotting ideas that promise to help readers reassess, recharge and inspire tired souls.

Organized by theme, desires and interests, Lonely Planet's Great Escapes includes 75 getaway ideas that span the world and cater to everyone from food lovers and thrill seekers to nature lovers and luxury travelers.

In the luxury travelers category, for example, editors suggest escaping to the cloud forests of Ecuador or embarking on a safari with Indian tigers.

Gourmands may want to consider indulging in their food fantasies chasing cheese and cider in Asturias, Spain, while nature lovers may want to consider sleeping under the stars in Kerala.
The common denominator threading through these travel ideas?

“These escapes can be discombobulating riots of colour if you want it, or they can be the complete absence of the things that stimulate the mind. A break to make you think, or a break to make you stop. Whatever your pleasure, whatever form it takes, an escape is a chance to reassess your life, to recharge your batteries, to so completely divorce yourself from normality that by the time you return to the nine-to-five grind you've forgotten all your passwords,” reads the intro.

Want more ideas? Rough Guides also has a Great Escapes travel edition that features 500 of the world's most inspiring holiday ideas, including watching the zebra migration in Botswana, riding with cowboys in Venezuela or boarding a luxury train from Paris to Madrid.

Lonely Planet's Great Escapes is available now and retails for $39.99.